Hull City's attendances at the KCOM Stadium have been on the slide over recent years but Saturday’s 0-0 draw against Reading brought a 14-year low.

The official gate of 14,300 – including 383 visiting fans – was the smallest crowd for a City league game on home soil since January 2004, when the Tigers beat Cambridge United 2-0 on their way to promotion out of the old Division Three in front of 14,271.

Not since the final day of the disastrous 1990-91 season have City attracted a crowd lower in the second tier. Just 3,175 turned up at Boothferry Park for a 2-0 win over Plymouth on May 4, 1991.

Saturday’s goal-less draw against Reading continued a pattern that sees supporters voting with their feet.

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It was the fourth time this season that crowds have dipped below the 15,000-mark and with the 18,026 in attendance for the Boxing Day stalemate with Derby County still the highest crowd since relegation from the Premier League, City’s current average of 15,717 is on course to be the lowest for a full season at the KCOM.

The falling figures have come in the second season of City’s controversial membership scheme that has seen concessions abolished in favour of a flat price being charged for each seat. Supporters have also protested against owners Assem and Ehab Allam, throwing yellow balls on to the pitch during the televised visit of Nottingham Forest in October.